Re: Too narrowly defined: DIVISION SIGN & COLON

Jukka K. Korpela, Tue, 10 Jul 2012 15:52:27 +0300:
> 2012-07-10 15:33, Andrew West wrote:
>
>> On 10 July 2012 11:50, Leif Halvard Silli wrote:
>>>
>>> My candidate characters, this round, are:
>>>
>>> DIVISION SIGN (÷) as minus sign.
>>> COLON (:) as division sign.
>>> MIDDLE DOT (·) as multiplication symbol.
>>
>> The last one is already encoded as U+22C5 DOT OPERATOR.
>>
>>> What's next? Would some formal action be needed?
>>
>> Yes. If you really want to propose them then you must submit a
>> proposal form to Unicode and/or WG2:
>>
>> <http://www.unicode.org/pending/proposals.html>
>
> I don’t think Leif meant proposing new characters. Instead, I suppose
> he meant adding annotations to existing characters, changing the text
> of the standards (probably in the code charts, though notes about
> uses of individual characters also appear scattered around the
> chapters of the standard, too).

Correct. That was what I meant, above.

-- 
Leif H Silli